Middle English Dictionary Entry
hāke n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | hāke n.(1) |
| Etymology | ?From OE haca a hook (i.e., from the shape of the hake's snout); cp. hacod the pike. Also cp. ML haka, -us. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
The European hake (Merluccius merluccius); ~ hed, the head of a hake; not worthi a ~, not worth much.
Associated quotations
- [ (1252) Close R.Hen.III292 : c hakos recentes..et iiijxx haddokos bonos et recentes. ]
- (1280) LRed Bk.Bristol1.90 : Debent..dari..de quolibet batello portante friscum Hake octo Hake.
- (1317) in Löfvenberg Contrib.Lex.9 : [1016] hakes [and 290 conger-eels].
- (1391) *Acc.Bridgwater (PRO)969/6 : In ij hakes siccis.
- (1392) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)5.206 : [Of the said goods there were found..a chest full of] hake [in that of the prior of Dover].
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.47 : Gyngawdry. Take the Powche and the Lyuour of haddok, codlyng, and hake, and of ooþer fisshe.
- (?c1400) LRed Bk.Bristol2.72 : Toutz maners grociz pissouns..melewels, Lenges, Hakes, Scalpyn, et Harrynges.
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)7848 : But ȝe him..ouertake, Ȝe bene not alle worthi an hake!
- (1427) *Anc.Pet.(PRO)124.6187 : Of fisshynge for hake yerely xiiij hakes to be resceyued be the hondes of the sed besecher.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)222 : Hake, fysche: Squilla, glossa Merarii.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)16 : Gyngaudre. Take þe Lyuerys of Codlyngys, Haddok, Elys, or þe Hake hed, or Freysshe Mylwell hedys.
- a1450-a1500(1436) Libel EP (Warner)658 : I caste to speke of Irelonde but a lytelle. Commoditees of it I woll entitell Hydes and fish, samon, hake and herynge.
- c1460 My fayr lady (Hrl 2255)201 : Hire skyn is tendyr for to towche, As of an hownd-fyssh or of an hake [rime: make, ake, shake].
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)845 : Hake, stokfyshe, haddok, cod, & whytynge.
- ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb)765/4-5 : Hic panus, Hic squylla, Anglice, a hake.